I Have Schizophrenia

Sickboy

CBC

Society & Culture

4.8 • 524 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2016

⏱️ 80 minutes

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What do you do when nobody around you can hear the music you hear? How do you explain to your loved ones that you don't recognize yourself in the mirror? Who do you call when you hear scary voices coming out of the walls? Last week we dived into what it's like to care for a loved one with Schizophrenia. This week we sit down with Laura. She has Schizophrenia or as she likes to put it, madness. In this very raw conversation Laura opens up about her most horrifying hallucinations, the mourning of her identity before the madness set in and shares some of the art shes created through her recovery.

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0:00.0	Hi, Steve Patterson here, host of the debaters, the show where Canada's best comics battle it out.
0:05.2	This week, we're asking if silence is golden, which is quite the question for two comedians.
0:09.6	And this goes without saying.
0:11.5	Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
0:15.1	This is a CBC podcast.
0:19.3	Welcome to Sick Boy, a podcast where we talk about what it's like to be sick. This
0:23.2	week's guest is Laura. She has schizophrenia. Let's talk about it.
0:48.3	Yeah. I'm doing really well.
0:52.1	I've been going to bed early and getting up early.
0:53.3	You're getting up super early. Yeah.
0:53.8	It's great to be like super
0:56.2	drained at 930 it's a good feeling it is really it's the feeling of realizing you're getting old
1:02.5	right yes you know yes and i love that feeling how are you doing brian yeah brii how's your
1:08.8	how are you doing good i'm pretty good i i you know, I'm really used to getting up at 5.30 in the
1:15.5	morning, which I do every day and work all day. So, yeah, you can probably now start to understand
1:21.6	how I usually feel, right? Right. I've been on permanent retirement since I was born, so I
1:26.5	wouldn't know anything about working every day.
1:28.9	And our guest today, Laura, how are you doing?
1:33.0	I'm doing pretty well. I spent some time hanging out with the chickens in my backyard with a two-year-old.
1:39.0	Wait, you got chickens? Yep. In downtown Halifax?
1:42.3	Totally legal.
1:43.2	That's so badass.
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